Hikaru Tansei

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Hikaru Tansei
丹生光

Hikaru Tansei (1954–) was born in Kanagawa Prefecture. In 1977 he joined the Bridgestone Corporation, where he worked as an engineer in product planning and development and was responsible for numerous patent applications. In 1990 he moved into management consulting at Sanwa Research Institute Corporation (now Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.), and in 1998 he founded his own firm, Initia Consulting. He has offered his highly creative ideas to a broad variety of businesses, helping them improve their operations in such areas as management strategy, business plans, marketing strategy, branding strategy, human resource management, and more. Besides developing strategic plans, he also offers implementation aid as well as continuing corporate reform support.

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